It has the billion dollar market value. Only in America. The VA and DOD has millions being spent on PTSD and has iPhone app mindfulness coach. Be careful if you ask at VA hospital about anything about mindfulness. South Carolina has 8 week class at MUSC in Charleston. Community is still unaware of this knowledge and practice. Personally I have been involved for years but would love to find others involved. Mindfulness and meditation learning behind Dr Kabit-Zinn has turned my life to peace and joy.

I have mixed feelings about mindfulness being all the rage-for many reasons, not the least of which is concern that it will ultimately be seen or dismissed in a general way as a fad or not really having the potential it has. I appreciate that we are trained to not make promises and say, ‘Try it for yourself and see what happens.’

Particularly interesting is the duration of the effect, “A 2-stage random effects approach showed that patients receiving MBCT had a reduced risk of depressive relapse within a 60-week follow-up period compared with those who did not receive MBCT.”

While I posted this in the Living Room forum, thought it important to post here, what could be bad news for mindfulness research, in a recent alert from www.sciencealert.com .
Hoping to hear from neuroscientists their call on whether this is truly as bad as it sounds.

There could be a very serious problem with the past 15 years of research into human brain activity, with a new study suggesting that a bug in fMRI software could invalidate the results of some 40,000 papers.

Hi, Kenneth. As I mentioned on the other thread, I’m reaching out to our experts here at the Center for Mindfulness. I don’t see it as a reason to be overly worried, however, for many reasons. This is just one means of measurement, and not the only one in use, when it comes to neurological studies of the brain in contemplative practice. I’m actually rather pleased that this affords the opportunity to improve the rigor of future studies and replication efforts – it can only help us to be more accurate in our growing understanding.

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